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Person-to-person Networking Still Lands Most Jobs

But Job Boards, Online Networking Gain Ground

Person-to-person networking continues to be job seekers’ most successful tool, according to a study by Right Management. The firm analyzed job data on the nearly 60,000 individuals throughout North America to whom it provided career transition services over the past three years. Traditional networking was the source of new career opportunities for 41% of job candidates last year, while Internet job boards accounted for 25% of new positions landed.

Source of New Job
(59,133 job seekers)

2010

2009

2008
Networking 41% 45% 41%
Internet Job Board 25% 19% 19%
Agency/Search firm 11% 9% 11%
Direct Approach 8% 8% 8%
Online Network (2010) 4% na na
Advertisement 2% 7% 7%
Other 10% 12% 14%

Person-to-person Networking Still Lands Most Jobs

JobVidi – A new approach to social recruitment?

The increasing use of social media by recruiters, direct hiring firms and jobseekers is having a profound impact on how people find jobs and jobs find people. Indeed,the recent successes of social media technologies like BranchOut and Glassdoor have added further weight behind the notion that social media will eventually lead to the death of traditional job boards, much in the same way that the internet itself ultimately all-but-eliminated the classified sections (including jobs) of printed newspapers.

JobVidi is the latest innovative recruitment tool that utilises social networks to connect recruiters with job seekers. Recruiters can access their profile by logging in with LinkedIn, and can post jobs directly onto JobVidi from their LinkedIn status or Twitter feed using #jobvidi. Most recruiters will be familiar with the use of this LinkedIn feature to promote jobs to connections, as many as 70% dosage of clomid of recruiters regularly using LinkedIn use their status bar in this way, and JobVidi is the first tool to enable posting from these networks directly to a targeted group of matched candidates.

JobVidi – A new approach to social recruitment?

UK Recruitment Trends Report 2011

In this report, Broadbean (a provider of recruitment advert posting and candidate response tracking technology) have taken both a macro and industry-specific view of what they saw happen in the UK recruitment market during 2011. Looking back, it is clear that 2011 was the year in which the depth and breadth of the economic trough became more widely understood. That there is unlikely to be a swift and material change to this condition now goes relatively unchallenged.
UK Recruitment Trends Report 2011

Report: Hiring expectations of 41 countries and territories Q3-2012

Despite a general softening trend from 12 months ago, employers in most labor markets report varying degrees of positive hiring activity for the third quarter.

According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey of global hiring trends released today, hiring activity is expected to slow from last year at this time in two-thirds of the countries and territories surveyed. The survey reveals few clear signs of notable traction in the labor market. However, the research reveals that employers in 33 of 41 countries and territories surveyed expect varying degrees of positive hiring activity for the third quarter. Hiring intentions are expected to improve or remain relatively stable in 32 labor markets compared to the second quarter, while hiring expectations weaken in 26 markets compared to this time last year. Other findings include:

Report: Hiring expectations of 41 countries and territories Q3-2012

Swedish Armed Forces: Who Cares?

Do you really care about other people? Would you give up your freedom to help others? Would you enter a room not knowing when you might get out? Tough questions to answers. Who cares? is a controversial, almost creepy, ambient interactive project that challenged the Swedish to prove if they are ready to help people in need.

Swedish Armed Forces: Who Cares?